Peer‐to‐peer COVID‐19 medical curriculum development during the pandemic

Abstract

The spring semester ended up with reopen of schools in September.The group of students we tutored online (n = 94) have started their new semester in the outpatient and inpatient departments. We had a survey on them and get a feedback that 73 of them (about 78%) considered the online clerkship helpful for their consequent clinical studies. Seventy-eight students (about 83%) chose the answer that the online clerkship in our department was helpful to them. Although it is obvious that real-world clinical clerkship is more attractive, some of these students (n = 38, about 40%) even preferred online tutorial because they felt relaxed when having class at home. Seventy students (about 75%) believe that it would be a great loss if they could not have any clerkship when studying at medical school.

Students as Community Vaccinators: Implementation of A Service-Learning COVID-19 Vaccination Program

“…Here we discuss the development, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative service-learning COVID-19 vaccination program. While there is growing body of literature about medical student contributions to the COVID-19 response [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 10 , 12 , 15 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ], our work is the largest student-lead, community-based vaccination program described to date. It reveals that medical students are effective front-line vaccinators during a global pandemic and can attain a valuable learning experience from this service.…”